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"I’m Still Here" is a film that gets in your face and under your skin. Kind of like a portrait wiped with the artist’s excrement. It’s disgusting, but it’s still art. The question is, at what cost?
If all that I’m Still Here documents is a hoax then Joaquin Phoenix is a far better actor than I ever suspected.
The big question that the peculiar [film] doesn’t answer is whether Phoenix is working through a creative rut or if any of his unusual behavior is par for the course.
The best mockumentaries — This Is Spinal Tap, any of Christopher Guest's films, Incident at Loch Ness — are immensely entertaining even if (or when) you realize they're fake. The same can't be said for I'm Still Here.
You won't personally be ridiculed and physically attacked. You'll just leave the theater feeling like you were.
Suggests a proper human being trying to make sense of a life in the public eye he never really wanted.
If the movie is a fake, the filmmakers deserve Oscars for creativity.
I do not want to know whether this is frightening fact or elaborate fiction. I like the idea that the film keeps me guessing which one it is. Or, maybe it is both?
As a character he is extreme, a grandiose wild man who manages to be irritating and ingratiating at the exact same time. It is a performance that is both absurd and committed and ranks among his best.
If this really is a mockumentary, Phoenix is doing some of the best acting of his career...
The crux of I'm Still Here is the same as the one central to most of Lars von Trier's filmic pranks: How far can one mess with one's audience while feigning sincerity?
The movie understands that his Last Honest Man in Showbiz routine is really a performance -- even if it's one the actor himself is only dimly aware of.
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I’m Still Here is a picture of spoiled entitlement, but its real impressiveness comes with its unusually mature sense of pacing.
Increasingly annoying, deluded, mumbling narcissism. Joaquin Phoenix may still be here, somewhere, but I no longer care.
There’s a thrilling madness to Phoenix’s Method.
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Like a pair of po-faced co-conspirators, Affleck and Phoenix have cooked up an audacious little distraction; a stage-managed Hollywood Babylon that's at once gaudily entertaining and willfully self-indulgent.
The film is made up of half-formed sketches in which Phoenix comes across like a childish crank who’s escaped from his soap box at Speakers’ Corner.
This film gives us more access than the most inquisitive tabloid magazines into Phoenix's world. By doing so, it makes us question and even become a little ashamed about our own voyeurism.
Rarely has the question of a documentary's artifice mattered less. I genuinely hated this picture, almost as much as I've admired Phoenix's work.
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Perhaps it goes without saying that Here was more provocative when it couldn’t be seen, when it existed for most of us purely in the realm of rumor.
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